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The Australian Dingo is our nations apex predator. The Dingo is highly adaptable, intelligent, resourceful and hardy.
Recent studies by Yale University have shown it is the most intelligent canid on the planet.
Despite unrelenting extermination efforts since the arrival of Europeans, it has managed to survive in some form throughout much of Australia, although the Alpine Dingo found along the Eastern seaboard are critically endangered. Our governments, pushed strongly by farmers groups continue to support the demonstrably unsuccessful and ecologically and economically unsustainable pursuit of dingo eradication. There is strong evidence to show that the eradication of our apex predator has done much to allow the proliferation of introduced predators like foxes and feral cats who are much more dangerous to our native wildlife, this evidence shows strongly that allowing the Dingo to thrive would lead to a more sustainable coexistence model and benefit the biodiversity greatly.
Yet our governments continue to allow and support the baiting, trapping and shooting of these amazing animals.
They are such amazing creatures, so beautiful looking. I am a “dog person”, I love all dogs, but these native animals are extra special creatures – you can tell this quickly when you meet them.
Did you know;
- The dingo is a true Australian native animal with recent geological and DNA evidence suggesting the species has been on the Australian continent for many thousands of years more than the 4,000 years that has been thought for some time. They have recently been recognised as a separate species, Canus Dingo. Previously it was thought that they had evolved from wolves.
- The dingo is classified as a “pest” or “vermin” by some state governments and many are authorising baiting of these beautiful animals with the terribly cruel poison 1080 which is banned in many other countries.
- They are incredibly flexible and are double jointed. They can rotate their head backwards. They have extraordinary 180 degree peripheral vision.
- Unlike all domestic dogs, their head is their widest part of their body, this ensures they do not get stuck in underground holes - if their head fits, so does the rest of their body (with the help of those previously mentioned flexible double-jointed legs).
- They have no scent.
- They can hear a heart beat from many meters away.
The un-educated removal of the Dingo is causing irreparable damage to our environment and eco-system, as other animals (feral dogs and cats, foxes etc) multiply out of control. A stable population of Dingos would keep these pests under control, and actually protect many other endangered species.
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Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592), one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance
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Tulipa agenensis Redouté as an educated guess according to PlantNet anyway . Spotted while out for a few shots looking at the sky while it was possible to get some sky shots - seems the rain will be back later on tomorrow .
I guess I spotted this among many other similar blooms when my eyes were not glued to the skies !!
Born to a wealthy Boston family and educated in Italy, Lizzie Boott was an accomplished artist. She studied with painter Frank Duveneck, and married him in 1886. When she died less than two years later, Duveneck created this sculpture in her memory, evoking tomb effigies of the Renaissance. Lizzie’s arms are folded and a palm branch (the Christian symbol for victory over death), is arranged along her body.
A bronze version of this sculpture adorns Boott’s grave in Florence’s Allori cemetery, and her father commissioned this marble version for the MFA. The novelist Henry James, a close family friend, wrote: “One is touched to tears by this particular example which comes home to one so—of the jolly great truth that it is art alone that triumphs over fate.”
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Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, England. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 30 prime ministers of the United Kingdom, 73 Nobel Prize laureates. Its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals. It has buildings in every style of English architecture since the late Anglo-Saxon period. Oxford is known as the "city of dreaming spires".
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Grote Reber from Illinois, was educated at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and was a serious amateur radio operator. He was inspired by Karl Jansky to build his very own backyard radio telescope in 1937. It was the world's first parabolic radio telescope and revolutionised the efficiency of receiving the signals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_astronomy#/media/File:Grote_A...
In 1938 Reber confirmed the findings of Jansky. After publishing his first scientific paper in the field in 1940 he was offered a position at the prestigious Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. He turned down this offer however, to continue his independent research. After WW2 Reber sold his telescope to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. After a short time doing some research there, he moved to Hawaii.
But he was on the move again when he believed that Tasmania would be an ideal location to listen to the universe with more clarity. "There, on very cold, long, winter nights the ionosphere would, after many hours shielded from the Sun's radiation by the bulk of the Earth, 'quieten' and de-ionize, allowing the longer radio waves into his antenna array. Reber described this as being a 'fortuitous situation'. Tasmania also offered low levels of man-made radio noise, which permitted reception of the faint signals from outer space." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_Reber
So working with Bill Ellis at the University of Tasmania, Reber set up a listening array at Bothwell after he arrived in 1954. This work continued there until the early 1980s, when NASA gifted a 26 metre telescope to the University of Tasmania, to be set up at Mt Pleasant in the Coal River Valley.
Reber was a polymath, who built his own energy-efficient house at Bothwell, an early version of an electric vehicle (perhaps the first), and was a committed conservationist. When he died in 2002 at the age of 90 he was recognised as one of the founders of radio astronomy. Though largely unknown outside his circle of scientific friends, he loved Tasmania, and now Tasmanians have come to realise that a giant lived in our midst.
Grote Reber: Wildcat Astronomer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Yzx_w3nw8
No AI was used in the making of these photos or in the writing of the descriptions. It is all my own work.
The highly educated Prince-Archbishop Albert I of Käfernburg, having had traveled in Italy and France, decided to construct the new cathedral modelled upon the Gothic architecture that had intrigued him in France. The French style was completely unknown in Germany, and the hired craftsmen only gradually mastered it.
The construction of the choir started in 1209, only two years after the fire that destroyed the previous church, but this choir is still in a very Romanesque style, initially still using romanesque groin vaults, combined with a gothic center stone, which however is not needed for Romanesque groin vaults.
The Gothic influence increased especially between 1235 and 1260 under Archbishop Wilbrand. As the construction was supervised by different people in the span of 300 years, many changes were made to the original plan, and the cathedral size expanded greatly. The people of Magdeburg were not always happy with this, since they had to pay for the construction. In some cases already constructed walls and pillars were torn down to suit the wishes of the current supervisor.
Construction stopped after 1274. In 1325, Archbishop Burchard III. von Schraplau was killed by the people of Magdeburg because of extreme taxes. Folklore says that especially the beer tax increase caused much anger. Afterwards Magdeburg was under a ban, and only after the donation of five atonement altars did the construction of the cathedral continue under Archbishop Otto von Hessen. Otto was also able to complete the interior construction, and formally opened the dome in 1363 in a week-long festival. At this time the cathedral was dedicated not only to St Maurice as before, but also to Saint Catherine.
In 1360 the construction stopped again after the uncompleted parts have been covered provisionally. Only in 1477 did the construction start again under Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen, including the two towers. The towers were constructed by master builder Bastian Binder, the only master builder of the cathedral known by name. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1520 with the placement of the ornamental cross on the north tower.
An educated thought; a 1948 Bedford PC utility, with a few mods.
Lachlan Valley Way.
Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
Architekt :
Tadao Ando
Born in Osaka in 1941. Self-educated in architecture, he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates in 1969. Major projects include the Church of the Light, the Armani Teatro, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Chichu Art Museum, Punta della Dogana, Clark Art Institute. He also wrote "Kenchiku wo kataru," "Rensen renpai" etc. Among the many awards he has received are the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Commandeur) in 2013. He became a professor emeritus for Tokyo University in 20www.2121designsight.jp/en/designsight/architecture.html<
Der Künstler: Georges Rousse
"Tokyo 2017"
Georges Ruth, die mit der Illusion von Menschen und anderen eine ortsspezifische Arbeit veröffentlicht. Das geometrische Muster, das in der Landschaft erscheint, wurde durch präzise Berechnung und Zusammenarbeit mit den Menschen auf dem Feld geboren. In dieser Ausstellung werden wir die fotografischen Arbeiten zusammen mit der auf den Bauraum von 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT zugeschnittenen Installation ausstellen.
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James Millikin was a wealthy Decatur businessman who was born in western Pennsylvania in 1827 and educated at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. In 1848 he moved to Danville, Illinois where he engaged in the livestock business, In 1860, four years after moving to Decatur, he organized a bank in his name, and thereafter made the city his permanent home. The most extensive of his many philanthropic activities during his later years was the founding by him in 1901 of the James Millikin University at Decatur.
Millikin's mansion was constructed for him and his wife, Anna, in 1875-76 at a cost of $18,000, It is basically a towered Italianate residence of a type popular during the 1860's; however, the high mansard roof of the tower, derived from the French Second Empire style, makes the home something of a composite of the two.
Seen in this photo behind and to the right of the mansion is a carriage house. The carriage house proper is a symmetrical structure made of the same red brick as the mansion and forming a stylistic entity with it. A one story addition along the west wall of the carriage house was added at some point and is matched to the original structure by use of identical materials, window treatment and decorative motifs.
James and Anna Millikin occupied the home for over 30 years. James died here in 1909 at the age of 82, and his wife Anna continued living in the home until her passing in 1913. The Millikin's wished for their mansion to serve the creative life of Decatur, and Anna's will specified the it was to be used as an art gallery, institute, and museum.
After Anna's death, the home stood empty for six years while the trustees tried to reach a consensus to implement the provisions set forth in Anna's will. It was during this period that the Millikin House was used as a contagion hospital during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19. After the pandemic the mansion became the Art Institute, which would later become the Decatur Art Center.
The James Millikin House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1974. In 1979, the James Millikin Homestead was created to restore and preserve the interior of this Decatur landmark. Today the mansion is open for tours, and the mansion and grounds are open for special events.
Decatur is the seat of Macon County. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in central Illinois. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production. The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College.
Decatur's estimated population for 2019 was 70,746, making Decatur the thirteenth-most populous city in Illinois, and the state's sixth-most populous city outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
Philadelphia-born and educated William Glackens was moved in 1895 to New York,where he continued to work as a successful newspaper and magazine illustrator.In 1904 he had given up illustration for painting.Yet his talent for which characterization,gesture,and composition continued to influence his art,as seen in this incident-filled scene of a snowy day in Central Park.Like his Ashcan colleague John Sloan,Glackens became an important advocate for progressive painting in the years after the 1913 Armory Show,heading artist organizations and shaping the important modernist collection of his childhood friend Albert C. Barnes.
... says Uli who appears to have a quite extensive knowledge of Döners open at 2AM. I can't call my opinion educated, but it was nice.
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
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I make myself a rule of publishing only portraits I honestly think their subjects would like. However, if you'd rather not see yourself here, let me know (www.flickr.com/people/matthiasrabiller/), and I'll remove the image from my stream. Besides, I might have made pictures of you that you'd like to have but have (not) yet appeared on this page. Maybe I messed up, maybe it's not developped yet... don't hesitate co contact me I'll let you know.
Aus Prinzip veröffentliche ich nur Portraits, wovon ich denke, dass sie ihren Subjekt gefallen würden. Wenn sie ihr Bild jedoch hier nicht sehen möchten können sie mich natürlich anschreiben (www.flickr.com/people/matthiasrabiller/), ich werde dann das Bild schnellstmöglich löschen. Habe ich von ihnen ein Bild gemacht, das sie haben möchten, aber (noch) nicht hier veröffentlicht wurde? Vielleicht habe ich bei diesem Bild auf irgendeiner Weise versagt, vielleicht ist es einfach noch nicht veröffentlicht... schreiben sie mich einfach an, und ich werde ihnen sagen wie es steht, bzw. ihre unveröffentlichte Bilder zukommen lassen.
Tribute to Russian history, 1825-1856
Decembrists - this is a group of Russian nobles, some of whom were exiled to Siberia as punishment for organizing a rebellion against Emperor Nicholas I. They were very smart, highly educated people with high titles and spirituality, who followed their ideals and for the good of their homeland.
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They were great figures that had suffered political persecution for their loyalty to the people. On the whole, indigenous Siberian populations greatly respected the Decembrists and were extremely hospitable in their reception of them.
During their time in exile, the Decembrists fundamentally influenced Siberian life. Decembrists (nobles themself and their wives who followed into exile with husbands) taught each peole foreign languages, arts and crafts, musical instruments. They established "academies" made up of libraries, schools, and symposia. In their settlements, Decembrists were fierce advocates of education, and founded many schools for natives. They contributed greatly to the field of agriculture, introducing previously unknown crops such as vegetables, tobacco, rye, buckwheat, and barley, and advanced agricultural methods such as hothouse cultivation. Despite restricted circumstances, the Decembrists accomplished an extraordinary amount, and their work was deeply appreciated by Siberians.
On 26 August 1856, with the ascent of Alexander II to the throne, the Decembrists received amnesty, and their rights, privileges were restored. To many, Siberia had become home. Those that did return to European Russia did so with enthusiasm for the enforcement of the Emancipation Reforms of 1861. The exile of the Decembrists led to the permanent implantation of an intelligentsia in Siberia. For the first time, a cultural, intellectual, and political elite came to Siberian society as permanent residents; they integrated with the country and participated alongside natives in its development.
Although the revolt was a proscribed topic during Nicholas’ reign, Alexander Herzen placed the profiles of executed Decembrists on the cover of his radical periodical "Polar Star". Alexander Pushkin addressed poems to his Decembrist friends; Nikolai Nekrasov, whose father served together with Decembrists in Ukraine, wrote a long poem about the Decembrist wives; and Leo Tolstoy started writing a novel on that liberal movement, which would later evolve into War and Peace. In the Soviet era Yuri Shaporin produced an opera entitled Dekabristi (The Decembrists), about the revolt, with the libretto written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. It premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre on 23 June 1953.
The theme of the Decembrists was reflected in Russian literature and music for many years, many writers and composers gave this story a romantic and tragic content.
Tara looks up with hope and faith in divine powers that will give them the strength to survive this difficult time. Viktor is immersed in inner thoughts, thinking how to survive this difficult time, looking for the meaning of life and readiness to accept the future.
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I love to be in the nature. This is my first time that I saw owl in the nature, they are so cute animals. Thanks to the photographer Mladen I saw beautiful place Jastrebarsko and I saw nice locations & different animals...
You can see here cool photos of nature and animals from Mladen photographer
A BRIEF HISTORY OF VOLK’S ELECTRIC RAILWAY
The son of a German clockmaker Magnus Volk was born at 35 (now 40) Western Road, Brighton on 19th October 1851. Educated in the town he was eventually apprenticed to a scientific instrument maker but on the death of his father in 1869 he returned home to assist his mother run the family business.
Scientific and engineering events in the wider world were of great interest to Magnus and he was forever experimenting with electricity, telegraphy and telephony. His growing prowess as an inventor and engineer and the fact that he was the first person in Brighton to equip his house with electric light, led to him being awarded the contract for providing the famous Royal Pavilion with electric incandescent lighting. Contacts made during this period were to prove very important with Magnus’s next and most long-lasting project.
1883 – 1900
The first railway, regauging and the extension to Paston Place
At noon on August 4th, 1883 Magnus presented the people of Brighton with his latest creation – an electric railway operating over a quarter of a mile of 2ft gauge line extending from a site on the seashore opposite the Aquarium to the Chain Pier. Power was provided by a 2hp Otto gas engine driving a Siemans D5 50 volt DC generator. The small electric car was fitted with a 1½hp motor giving a top speed of about 6mph.
The tinting of the original black and white photograph is our interpretation of the contemporary press description of the car. Magnus is standing on the left hand platform with the Mayor on the right.
A NEW DIRECTION
No sooner was the railway open than Magnus sought powers to extend it westwards along the beach to the town boundary. To his dismay the Council turned this proposition down so he reversed direction and succeeded in getting permission to extend eastwards from the Aquarium to the Banjo Groyne. He also secured the rental of the ‘Arch’ at Paston Place to provide workshop and power facilities. Following experience gained from the first line he also decided to widen the track gauge to 2’8½”, and he designed two more powerful and larger passenger cars.
Although the line would run along the seashore it still required a lot of timber trestles to bridge gaps in the shingle, and severe gradients down and up to allow the cars to pass under the Chain Pier. The picture to the left is from the cover of a book produced by Volk promoting his new railway. In the background can be seen the Chain Pier.
The new line opened on April 4th 1884 using one car. The uprated power plant in the ‘Arch’ consisted of an Otto 12 hp gas engine powering a Siemens D2 dynamo at 160 rpm. This gave an output of 160 volts at 40 amps – more than sufficient to propel the two new cars along the 1,400 yard long line. A station was provided adjacent to the Banjo Groyne, and a loop complete with halt was provided halfway along the track for cars to pass. With the arrival of the second car a 5 or 6 minute service was provided daily summer and winter (excepting Sundays until 1903) – weather and storm damage permitting. It says a lot for Magnus’s fortitude and engineering that this service operated right up until 1940 when the threat of invasion closed the railway for the duration.
Source: Volks Electric Railway Association
This is one of Brighton’s landmark. It is still up and running. I have volunteered there through work supporting my students. The people at Volks are friendly, supportive and helpful.
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Volks Electric Railway, Brighton 🇬🇧
20th May, 2020
I've been wondering how many well educated/trained talents in one orchestral group, how many brave soldiers in one battle, and also how many lovely fresh leaves in one spring? They have been unknown, unnamed, or even invisible!
Leaves give stronger definitions to the cycle of life, clear our visions from pollution, and also dearly let us embrace the Nature even more. Like clouds, they are the amazing canvas given by the God ( No matter which God you believe in.)
“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But] that does not lessen their beauty...”
- Louisa May Alcott
Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba.
Established in 1876, the Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón was named after Christopher Columbus and designed by a Madrid-educated Galician architect by the name of Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso. Built around a central chapel that was loosely modeled after the Florence Cathedral (aka “Il Duomo”), the 150-acre cemetery is laid out in a grid of main central avenues and smaller side streets. As planned by Loira, the layout organizes the occupants of the cemetery according to their rank and social status, with the wealthy and well-connected occupying prominent spots on main thoroughfares while more lowly individuals (such as the condemned, victims of epidemics, and “pagans”) are relegated to the “suburbs.”
Colón Cemetery contains over 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults, with styles running from renaissance to neoclassical to art deco. In addition to the countless stunning examples of funerary architecture, unique sites include: an elaborate 75-foot-tall memorial for firefighters who died in a disastrous citywide fire in 1890. The very first occupant of Colón Cemetery was the architect Loira himself, who died before the project was finished.
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Architekt :
Tadao Ando
Born in Osaka in 1941. Self-educated in architecture, he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates in 1969. Major projects include the Church of the Light, the Armani Teatro, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Chichu Art Museum, Punta della Dogana, Clark Art Institute. He also wrote "Kenchiku wo kataru," "Rensen renpai" etc. Among the many awards he has received are the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Commandeur) in 2013. He became a professor emeritus for Tokyo University in 20www.2121designsight.jp/en/designsight/architecture.html
Der Künstler: Georges Rousse
"Tokyo 2017"
Georges Ruth, die mit der Illusion von Menschen und anderen eine ortsspezifische Arbeit veröffentlicht. Das geometrische Muster, das in der Landschaft erscheint, wurde durch präzise Berechnung und Zusammenarbeit mit den Menschen auf dem Feld geboren. In dieser Ausstellung werden wir die fotografischen Arbeiten zusammen mit der auf den Bauraum von 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT zugeschnittenen Installation ausstellen.
James Millikin was a wealthy Decatur businessman who was born in western Pennsylvania in 1827 and educated at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. In 1848 he moved to Danville, Illinois where he engaged in the livestock business, In 1860, four years after moving to Decatur, he organized a bank in his name, and thereafter made the city his permanent home. The most extensive of his many philanthropic activities during his later years was the founding by him in 1901 of the James Millikin University at Decatur.
Millikin's mansion was constructed for him and his wife, Anna, in 1875-76 at a cost of $18,000, It is basically a towered Italianate residence of a type popular during the 1860's; however, the high mansard roof of the tower, derived from the French Second Empire style, makes the home something of a composite of the two.
Seen in this photo behind and to the left of the mansion is a carriage house. The carriage house proper is a symmetrical structure made of the same red brick as the mansion and forming a stylistic entity with it. A one story addition along the west wall of the carriage house was added at some point and is matched to the original structure by use of identical materials, window treatment and decorative motifs.
James and Anna Millikin occupied the home for over 30 years. James died here in 1909 at the age of 82, and his wife Anna continued living in the home until her passing in 1913. The Millikin's wished for their mansion to serve the creative life of Decatur, and Anna's will specified the it was to be used as an art gallery, institute, and museum.
After Anna's death, the home stood empty for six years while the trustees tried to reach a consensus to implement the provisions set forth in Anna's will. It was during this period that the Millikin House was used as a contagion hospital during the great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19. After the pandemic the mansion became the Art Institute, which would later become the Decatur Art Center.
The James Millikin House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1974. In 1979, the James Millikin Homestead was created to restore and preserve the interior of this Decatur landmark. Today the mansion is open for tours, and the mansion and grounds are open for special events.
Lastly, take a look at the partially obscured house to the north (right in this view) of Millikin House. This Prairie School gem was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A separate photo of showing the full house will be posted later in this series.
Decatur is the seat of Macon County. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in central Illinois. Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production. The city is home of private Millikin University and public Richland Community College.
Decatur's estimated population for 2019 was 70,746, making Decatur the thirteenth-most populous city in Illinois, and the state's sixth-most populous city outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
This beautiful church was raised in 1922, and it replaced an older, almost similar church. Just like other churches in Iceland's East fjords from this era, this church is heavily influenced by Norse architecture - its architect was educated in Bergen, Norway.
[Interestingly, at the same time, Iceland was still a Danish colony...]
“The butterflies…What an educated sense of beauty they have. They seem only an ornament to society, and yet, if they were gone, how substantial would be their loss.”
— Phil Robertson (American professional hunter, businessman (Duck Commander company), and reality television star on Duck Dynasty)
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‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 640
‧ Aperture – f/7.1
‧ Exposure – 1/60 second
‧ Focal Length – 300mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The highly educated Prince-Archbishop Albert I of Käfernburg, having had traveled in Italy and France, decided to construct the new cathedral modelled upon the Gothic architecture that had intrigued him in France. The French style was completely unknown in Germany, and the hired craftsmen only gradually mastered it.
The construction of the choir started in 1209, only two years after the fire that destroyed the previous church, but this choir is still in a very Romanesque style, initially still using romanesque groin vaults, combined with a gothic center stone, which however is not needed for Romanesque groin vaults.
The Gothic influence increased especially between 1235 and 1260 under Archbishop Wilbrand. As the construction was supervised by different people in the span of 300 years, many changes were made to the original plan, and the cathedral size expanded greatly. The people of Magdeburg were not always happy with this, since they had to pay for the construction. In some cases already constructed walls and pillars were torn down to suit the wishes of the current supervisor.
Construction stopped after 1274. In 1325, Archbishop Burchard III. von Schraplau was killed by the people of Magdeburg because of extreme taxes. Folklore says that especially the beer tax increase caused much anger. Afterwards Magdeburg was under a ban, and only after the donation of five atonement altars did the construction of the cathedral continue under Archbishop Otto von Hessen. Otto was also able to complete the interior construction, and formally opened the dome in 1363 in a week-long festival. At this time the cathedral was dedicated not only to St Maurice as before, but also to Saint Catherine.
In 1360 the construction stopped again after the uncompleted parts have been covered provisionally. Only in 1477 did the construction start again under Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen, including the two towers. The towers were constructed by master builder Bastian Binder, the only master builder of the cathedral known by name. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1520 with the placement of the ornamental cross on the north tower.
The highly educated Prince-Archbishop Albert I of Käfernburg, having had traveled in Italy and France, decided to construct the new cathedral modelled upon the Gothic architecture that had intrigued him in France. The French style was completely unknown in Germany, and the hired craftsmen only gradually mastered it.
The construction of the choir started in 1209, only two years after the fire that destroyed the previous church, but this choir is still in a very Romanesque style, initially still using romanesque groin vaults, combined with a gothic center stone, which however is not needed for Romanesque groin vaults.
The Gothic influence increased especially between 1235 and 1260 under Archbishop Wilbrand. As the construction was supervised by different people in the span of 300 years, many changes were made to the original plan, and the cathedral size expanded greatly. The people of Magdeburg were not always happy with this, since they had to pay for the construction. In some cases already constructed walls and pillars were torn down to suit the wishes of the current supervisor.
Construction stopped after 1274. In 1325, Archbishop Burchard III. von Schraplau was killed by the people of Magdeburg because of extreme taxes. Folklore says that especially the beer tax increase caused much anger. Afterwards Magdeburg was under a ban, and only after the donation of five atonement altars did the construction of the cathedral continue under Archbishop Otto von Hessen. Otto was also able to complete the interior construction, and formally opened the dome in 1363 in a week-long festival. At this time the cathedral was dedicated not only to St Maurice as before, but also to Saint Catherine.
In 1360 the construction stopped again after the uncompleted parts have been covered provisionally. Only in 1477 did the construction start again under Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen, including the two towers. The towers were constructed by master builder Bastian Binder, the only master builder of the cathedral known by name. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1520 with the placement of the ornamental cross on the north tower.
The highly educated Prince-Archbishop Albert I of Käfernburg, having had traveled in Italy and France, decided to construct the new cathedral modelled upon the Gothic architecture that had intrigued him in France. The French style was completely unknown in Germany, and the hired craftsmen only gradually mastered it.
The construction of the choir started in 1209, only two years after the fire that destroyed the previous church, but this choir is still in a very Romanesque style, initially still using romanesque groin vaults, combined with a gothic center stone, which however is not needed for Romanesque groin vaults.
The Gothic influence increased especially between 1235 and 1260 under Archbishop Wilbrand. As the construction was supervised by different people in the span of 300 years, many changes were made to the original plan, and the cathedral size expanded greatly. The people of Magdeburg were not always happy with this, since they had to pay for the construction. In some cases already constructed walls and pillars were torn down to suit the wishes of the current supervisor.
Construction stopped after 1274. In 1325, Archbishop Burchard III. von Schraplau was killed by the people of Magdeburg because of extreme taxes. Folklore says that especially the beer tax increase caused much anger. Afterwards Magdeburg was under a ban, and only after the donation of five atonement altars did the construction of the cathedral continue under Archbishop Otto von Hessen. Otto was also able to complete the interior construction, and formally opened the dome in 1363 in a week-long festival. At this time the cathedral was dedicated not only to St Maurice as before, but also to Saint Catherine.
In 1360 the construction stopped again after the uncompleted parts have been covered provisionally. Only in 1477 did the construction start again under Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen, including the two towers. The towers were constructed by master builder Bastian Binder, the only master builder of the cathedral known by name. The construction of the cathedral was completed in 1520 with the placement of the ornamental cross on the north tower.
A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across the Lost Mine Peak mountainside with its eroded and jagged formations while hiking the namesake trail in Big Bend National Park. The idea was to capture that look across the mountainside with the different textures present from areas caught in sunlight and others still in shadows. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 5 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.
I will ask DD for her highly educated guess about this projectile point - NOT an "arrowhead"! It would require a sapling as an arrow shaft. It is BIG and HEAVY
HMM everyone
I see I did not make a proper statement to say what this is. It is a Brewerton Corner Notched projectile point made on Onondaga chert. Look on my Flickr for more detailed pictures, measurements etc.HMM everyone!
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is now one of the widest-ranging mammals in the world, as well as the most widespread suiform.
Doñana National Park is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain. It covers 543 km2, of which 135 km2 are a protected area. The Parque Nacional de Doñana is one of Europe's most important wetland reserves and a major site for migrating birds. The parque itself and surrounding parque natural or Entorno de Doñana (a protected buffer zone) amount to over 1,300 km2 in the provinces of Huelva, Sevilla and Cádiz.
The park is an area of marsh, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the Guadalquivir River Delta region where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It was established as a nature reserve in 1969 when WWF joined with the Spanish government and purchased a section of marshes to protect it. Tourism at that time and the spread of hotels along the beach had been a major threat, but is today well regulated, educated and supportive to the management of the park. There has been a constant threat to the ecosystem, that of drainage of the marshes, the use of river water to boost agricultural production by irrigating land along the coast.
This image was taken in the Doñana Nature Park, near Cadiz in Southern Spain.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
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This one didn't turn out quite as nicely as I would have liked; I had very high expectations for it, but the light just wasn't there.
But with the amount of effort it took to get to this waterfall; and with the climbing I had to do over slick rocks there was no way I wasn't going to process and post.
They can't all be winners, but at least I got a good workout in trying to get this one!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Fins
Folks in Siam do it ...
Not bad for an iPhone shot. Found these two on the windshield of my car.
Otto is the last dog we have adopted. His mom and siblings were left to fend for themselves on uninhabited land. They were finally picked up by our vet who found them home. Nobody wanted to adopt Otto because he was no longer a puppy.
Otto is the most affectionate and educated dog in the world. We adore him!